And really, during the awkward silence that ensued, that insufficiently patriotic person entered whom Anna Pávlovna had been waiting for and wished to convert, and she, smiling and shaking a finger at Hippolyte, invited Prince Vasíli to the table and bringing him two candles and the manuscript begged him to begin.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[EN] Bill Dunlap (Paris & San Francisco) #Founder of Global Reach, a methodology for companies to expand their Internet presence through a multilingual website Founder of Global Reach, Bill Dunlap specialized in international online marketing and e-commerce among mainly American companies.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

"These (the human faculties) I would arrange under the different senses and powers: as the eye, the ear, the touch, etc.; the imitative power, voluntary and automatic; the imagination, or shaping and modifying power; the fancy, or the aggregative and associative power; the understanding, or the regulative, substantiating and realizing power; the speculative reason, vis theoretica et scientifica, or the power by which we produce or aim to produce unity, necessity, and universality in all our knowledge by means of principles a priori
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I Set out with 5 men at 8 oClock, and proceeded on up the Creek Some distance to examine that & if possable assend that Suffcently high, that a Streight Cours to the mouth of Medison river would head the 2 reveins, the Creek I found Confined rapid and Shallow generalley Monday 17th of June passed through an open roleing Prarie, So as to head the two reveins after heading two we Stand our Course So as to Strike the river below the great pitch on our Course to the river Crossed a Deep rivein near its mouth with Steep Clifts this rivein had running water which was very fine, the river at this place is narrow & Confined in perpindicular clifts of 170 feet from the tops of those Clifts the Countrey rises with a Steep assent for about 250 feet more we proceeded up the river passing a Sucession of rapids & Cascades to the Falls, which we had herd for Several miles makeing a dedly Sound, I beheld those Cateracts with astonishment the whole of the water of this great river Confined in a Channel of 280 yards and pitching over a rock of 97 feet 3/4 of an, from the foot of the falls arrises a Continued mist which is extended for 150 yds.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

in the course of the day I observed them eat the inner part of the young and succulent stem of a large coarse plant with a ternate leaf, the leafets of which are three loabed and covered with a woolly pubersence.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The figurative expression, “a snowbird has been killed,” used to avoid offending the eagle tribe, is paralleled in the expression, “he has been scratched by a brier,” used by the Cherokee to mean, “he has been bitten by a snake.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Creator of The Human-Languages Page (who became iLoveLanguages in 2001) and The Internet Dictionary Project Alain Clavet * (Ottawa) / Policy analyst with the Office of the Commissioner of the Official Languages in Canada Jean-Pierre Cloutier * (Montreal) / Editor of Chroniques de Cybérie, a weekly report of Internet news Kushal Dave * (Yale) / Student at Yale University Bruno Didier * (Paris) / Webmaster of the Institute Pasteur Library Catherine Domain * (Paris) / Founder of the Ulysses Bookstore (Librairie Ulysse), the oldest travel bookstore in the world Helen Dry (Michigan) / Moderator of The Linguist List Bill Dunlap (Paris & San Francisco) / Founder of Global Reach, a methodology for companies to expand their Internet presence through a multilingual website Jacques Gauchey * (San Francisco) / Specialist in the information technology industry, "facilitator" between the United States and Europe, and journalist Marcel Grangier * (Bern) / Head of the French Section of the Swiss Federal Government's Central Linguistic Services
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

But if these could be known, then even the inward parts, which seem to have no beauty, would so delight us with their exquisite fitness, as to afford a profounder satisfaction to the mind—and the eyes are but its ministers—than the obvious beauty which gratifies the eye.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Global Reach is a methodology for companies to expand their Internet presence into a more international framework.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

I have considered, thus far, the effects on the pleasures and benefits of the marriage union which depend on the mere unlikeness between the wife and the husband: but the evil tendency is prodigiously aggravated when the unlikeness is inferiority.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

If we gather into one dismal pile the weakening of power for good, the strengthening of impulses to evil, the inward poverty, the unrest, the gnawings of conscience or its silence, the slavery under evil often loathed even while it is being obeyed, the dreary sense of inability to mend oneself, and often the wreck of outward life which dog our sins like sleuth-hounds, surely we shall not need to imagine a future tribunal in order to be sure that sin is a murderess, or to hear her laugh as she mocks her helpless victims.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

[Pg 571] APPENDIX E. NOTE ON THE EXPORT TRADE IN PERUVIAN BARK FROM THE PORTS OF SOUTH AMERICA, AND ON THE IMPORT TRADE INTO ENGLAND.
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

re, “hushed in grim repose,” they “expect their insect prey.”
— from Insect Architecture by James Rennie

“You shall have your title, Esmond, that I promise you,” says the good bishop, assuming the airs of a prime minister.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

Her abdomen now begins gradually to extend, till in process of time it is enlarged to 1500 or 2000 times the size of the rest of her body, and her bulk equals that of 20,000 or 30,000 workers.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 2 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

I should say that they also continued very largely the emotional tradition in politics, and it is doubtful if in the nature of things the politics of literary men can ever be otherwise than emotional.
— from Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) by William Dean Howells

But I will not attempt to explain the ideal pantheism which Brahmanical philosophers substituted for the Nature-worship taught in the earlier Vedas.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord

To seek out tales of adventure easily intelligible to the non-climber, to edit them in popular form, to point out the lessons which most adventures can teach to those who may climb themselves one day, has occupied many pleasant hours, rendered doubly so by the feeling that I shall again come into touch with the readers who gave so kindly a greeting to my True Tales of Mountain Adventure .
— from Adventures on the Roof of the World by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.

By representing environment a mind does not do anything to environment, that is plain.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von